package com.google.code.solrdimension.config.converters;

import java.util.List;

import com.google.code.solrdimension.config.dimensionvalue.AbstractDimensionValueConfig;
import com.google.code.solrdimension.indexmodifiers.IndexModAction;
import com.google.code.solrdimension.parsers.beans.Dimension;
import com.google.code.solrdimension.parsers.beans.DimensionValue;

/**
 * All DimensionValue to DimensionValueConfig converter should implement this interface or inherit 
 * from {@link AbstractDimensionConfigConverter} and have the config type mapping register in the 
 * DimensionValue2ConfigConverterMap spring bean
 * 
 * @author mhc
 *
 */
public interface DimensionValueConverter {
    
    /**
     * 
     * @param dimensionValues
     *            The list of dimensionValues to be convert
     * @param dimension
     *            This Dimension encapsulating the dimension values
     * @return
     *            A list of DimensionValueConfig
     *            
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
     *            If the source / target type are not the expected type
     */
    public List<? extends AbstractDimensionValueConfig> convert(List<? extends DimensionValue> dimensionValues, Dimension dimension) throws UnsupportedOperationException;

    
    
    
}
